Didier Gigmes is a CNRS research director and since 2012 director of the Institute of Radical Chemistry (UMR N°7273 Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille France). Currently, with his group, his research activity is focused on the development and use of new methodologies for the synthesis of advanced polymers finding applications in the fields of energy, environment and health. In 1998, he received his PhD in organic chemistry from the University Paul Cézanne in Marseille (France). Then he moved to Elf Atochem North America in Pennsylvania (USA) as a post-doctoral fellow to work in the field of the controlled radical polymerization. In 2001, he was recruited as CNRS researcher to develop the nitroxide-mediated polymerization technique. In October 2010, he was appointed Research Director from the CNRS working at Aix-Marseille University (France) and in 2022, he received the CNRS silver medal.